According to the calculations of ecologists, Naroch can withstand up to 70,000 tourists a year. However, every year the army of summer visitors is increasing: in 2006 the resort received about 60,000 tourists in 2009 - almost 100 thousand. Naturally, the resort area can not cope with the increasing flow of tourists: the infrastructure is not enough, and the nature of DPS. Designed to solve the existing problems the state program development Naroch region, which is designed for 2011-2015. TIO.BY correspondent visited the resort and learned how to relax on Naroch the eve of great changes.

Over five years of the program, which will cost at least 430 billion Belarusian rubles, substantially transformed must not only Naroch, but other lakes and located near their settlements. In the project area resort Naroch region expanded to 90 hectares - almost half the territory Myadel district. In the resort will have new hotels, campgrounds, restaurants, guest houses and country estates. There will also be improved transport links - in terms of highway. Meanwhile, tourists who come to the resort ghost, where restaurants and toilets work intermittently, and the staff stayed in the Soviet era.

Looking for accommodation

The basis of the resort is a nursing home. The demand for sanatorium rest especially great in the summer time, so the Russians - and the flow of Russian tourists are mainly from Moscow, St. Petersburg and Smolensk - book tour last winter. In the low season to get to the sanatorium is much simpler, and prices are falling at 10-15%.

Tourists who do not have time to book your summer vacation in the winter, forced to seek alternative accommodation. Accommodation at the hotel can not afford one. Hotels harder to compete with the spas in the price, because the last exempt from value added tax, which is 20%. Moreover, the hotels on Naroch quite a bit: turgostinitsa Naroch, which expands at the expense of a new building, several guest houses and hotels Naroch. Last summer, it closed for reconstruction, but the next season should become the first resort on the 3-star hotel.

Current season sets records for attendance, especially on weekends, when the shores of the lake rests at the same time 5-6 thousand tourists, therefore, has never been active private sector. According to locals, tourists are willing to pay any money, but would not stay on the street. Prices compared with last year almost doubled: one bedroom apartment in the town center will cost $ 30 a day, two-bedroom - 50.

Resort is great, but nowhere to eat

Closer to the dinner turned out, what to eat on Naroch as easy as finding housing. At the heart of the resort village has a restaurant and three cafes, one of which, together with the hotel Naroch closed for reconstruction. In another cafe in connection with the heat from 15.00 to 16.00 did not work kitchen. On the door of another institution a plate "Sun. day ».

But even if the institutions are working on a schedule, at lunch time only restaurant halls, usually empty - it's expensive. On weekends, the restaurant in general is closed for special services. "Rest rest and married people also have to" - leads the closing argument attendants. I had to go to a local department store where sausages were found in the test, belyashi and pasties.

«We are often asked when the problem will be solved food - recognized the Deputy Director General, IBO "Narochanski Vladimir Borovoy. - To create and develop the infrastructure needs large investments and, accordingly, the client throughout the year. A winter Naroch rests almost a thousand people. In the summer of restaurants is not enough, and in winter they bring losses. Thus, in the winter time in the village worked two bars, the proceeds of each of them did not exceed 160,000 a day. " The vicious circle: no client - no infrastructure, and vice versa. Get out of it, confident in the national park, will help private owners, because the resort are sorely lacking small restaurants and cafes on the beach.

More recently Naroch positioned itself as a resort, where often come from abroad. During our stay we really met the tourists of different nationalities. A large group of Poles, traveling by bicycle on Belarus, and could not eat, and participants had to manage ice cream and blueberries to 9000 per liter. A Chinese youth vainly tried to rent an apartment, where they could accommodate just 11 people. Visitors from Israel, admiring the untouched beauty of this area, noted the lack of information on the resort, including English.

Other services, as well as their lack of

Those who wish to diversify their tourists and Naroch offer rental boats, catamarans, with this year appeared the private Bicycle. Hour of cycling, depending on the brand is from 7 to 10 thousand. However, as the hostess told the ten new Gornik, a service for some reason, Russians are more likely to use.

From the entertainment at the resort - pool, casino until 2 am and dancing until 4 am . You can still go on one of the tour routes, developed in a national park. The choice is, but for the resort, claiming the European level, a little.

Day most of the time campers spend on the beach. True, not all dare to swim - 20 years on Naroch tserkarioza there is a problem, or itching bather. Centre for Bioresources developed a number of recommendations to reduce the risk of infection tserkariozom, in particular, on the banks placed billboards asking them not to feed the birds. It is true that tourists sometimes ignore advice. And, photographed against a background of white swans, do not leave them without the treats.

Plunge into the lake with the best floating platforms, away from the coast, where it is deeper and less cercariae. True, these platforms Naroch still only four. Be in the water are advised not more than five minutes, which makes swimming not fun, but filled with fears rush.

If we go back to the issue of beach infrastructure, the mini- bars, volleyball nets and children's attractions are only a few beaches.

"The scope of services at the resort poorly developed, - says head of marketing sanatorium Priozerny Alexei Shepetko . - But do not blame this only one national park, because its objective - the protection of nature. It needs a more open policy of local authorities, national park and state agencies to attract private investment into the region. In addition, it is very important to all tourist attractions were a single complex. Meanwhile, the resort is a 14 separate resorts, whose territory a route connects the mini-tractor "Belarus" with trailer wagons. This is the only transportation within the resort, running every hour.

With the large influx of tourists in the resort and felt the parking problem. Stir in the resort village does not overlap, so along with the bikers ride on narrow roads and cars. In the resort area is equipped with two camping, but they operate at a loss - one this year even had to close.

In the resort area are waiting for future changes, because with the advent of investors and will competition, the struggle for the tourist, and, consequently, improve the quality of rest. In the resort would be a choice vacation for every taste, alternative. Alas, it Naroch unavailable. Hence, the resort is not yet too.

Author: Ian SHIDLOVSKY, photo Ales SAVITSKY